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What national disaster caused people to distrust nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels​

User Priyak Dey
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A radioactive leak occurred at the Three Mile Island reactor.

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Chernobyl

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The nuclear power has been promoted as a clean and much more productive in terms of producing energy, thus that it is better in every way than the fossil fuels. While this is tru, and the nuclear power beats the fossil fuels in every aspect, there's one big problem with it, a nuclear disaster may occur. This is what happened in Chernobyl. The nuclear plant had problems, and the radiation started to come out of it. Very quickly the whole area was under heavy radiation, killing lot of people, and damaging a lot of them for life. The effects have been so big that even several thousand kilometers away the effects have been felt from its radiation. The radiation stays, it doesn't go away easily, and the area is still not populated and will not be for quite so time in the future. This understandable panicked the people, and they distrusted what was promoted to them after this disaster, fearing for their safety and the safety of their families.

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